Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Morning Glory Okra

In peat pots
Morning glory 5pp-3 pots
Okra-red 4pp - 2 pots

Stevia

2pp in 5 peat pots put in warm bathroom under plastic cover
Very small seeds. Pkg says press into top of soil

Elephant garlic

3 cloves planted in with sugar snap peas (old NZ spinach bed)
Spring planting
Package of 3 cost $2.89. Are they elephant because of size or are they the real elephant garlic which is supposedly a leek?

Dutch & Spanish Set Planted Mar 24/10

Dutch sets 7 rows by 9 =63
White sets 3 rows by 9 =27
Spanish 8 rows by 9= 72
Dutch & spanish- larger bulbs to east. Smaller bulbs to west
Bought in bulk.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Onion sets

White, elephant garlic, spanish setsn dutch sets
Bought from Dartnall Rd Home Hardware (formerly Country Depot)
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Sunday, March 21, 2010

New garlic bed

09 was potatoes
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Garlic in box

half of a bed with fall planted garlic starting to show.
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Sugar Snap Peas Norli

48 by 48 6 rows 2"apart


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Onion bed

Added 09 straw & manure, then dug, ready for onions. Bed 1 of 2
ready to go
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Raised Bed

Added manure
For lettuce this year
Ovewintered spinach from fall 2009
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Endive Bed

Seeded endive last fall
A few seedlings visible













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Raised Early Bed for seeding March 21/10

March 21













Added manure, soil, turned over. planted 12 rows, covered with peat moss

12 rows 
1- Carrot danvers126 '10
2- Radish- Sora '10
3- Carrot- Danvers 126
4.- Leaf Lettuce- Grand Rapids
5-  Beets- Early Wonder '10
6- Lettuce Bon Vivant '10
7- Beets-Early Wonder '10
8-Spinach- Spargo '09
9-Swiss Chard- Eldorado '09
10-Spinach- Spargo '09
11-Swiss Chard-Eldorado
12- Green Onion- Collected seed '07















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Rapini Bed

Added manure, soil.
Used 07 collected seed.
Must harvest regularly
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NZ spinach

Moved 090plants here last fall. Left stems overwinter.
Removed stems, stripped seeds, scuffed soil. When will they gerninate?
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Overwintered spinach

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Cabbage Patch

Tomatoes in 08 & 09
Turned over Mar 21
Will grow cabbage, kale, broccoli here this year
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